an i mad versal

& 8. [From Lat. an i mad ver sum, supine of an i mad ver to.] [ANIMADVERT.] 1. As adjective: Having the faculty of perception, or the power of perceiving. 2. As substantive: That which has the faculty of perception; the soul. "That lively inward an i mad versal: it is the soul itself; for I cannot conceive the body doth animadvert; when as objects, plainly exposed to the sight, are not discovered till the soul takes notice of them.' -More: Song of the Soul, Notes, p. 22. ăn-im-ad-věr'-sion, s . [In Fr. animadver sion. From Lat. animadversio (1) the perception of an object, attention; (2) censure, punishment.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act of perceiving an object; attention. "The soul is the sole percipient which hath animadversion and sense, properly so called."-Glanville. 2. As close attention to any one's conduct is pretty sure to detect serious imperfections in it, the word acquired the secondary signification of severe censure, reproof, serious blame. This is now almost its sole meaning. "He dismi ed their commi ioners with severe and sharp animadversions."-Clarendon. 3. Punishment. [See II.] "When a bill is debating in Parliament, it is usual to have the controversy handled by pamphlets on both sides, without the least animadversion upon the authors." Swift . II. Technically : Mediæv. Eccles. Law: The infliction by the civil power, at the instigation of the church, of punishment on offenders against ecclesiastical law. "An ecclesiastical censure and an ecclesiastical ani mad version are different things: for a censure has a relation to a spiritual punishment, but an animadver sion has only a respect to a temporal one, as degradation, and the delivering the person over to the secular court."- Ayliffe Parergon,